“ ‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’ ”
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“ ‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’ ”
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Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
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And ye shall observe all My statutes, and all Mine ordinances, and do them: I am the LORD.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 19:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 8:1 You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
- Leviticus 18:4-5 You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 5:1 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
- Psalms 119:34 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
- 1 John 3:22-23 so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
- Deuteronomy 4:1-2 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you. You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
- Deuteronomy 4:5-6 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
- Deuteronomy 6:1-2 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess; that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
- Psalms 119:4 You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 19:37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes,…
Lev 19:37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 37. And do them.] For they are verba vivenda, non legenda. Words not so much to be read as lived.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Therefore; because my blessings and deliverances are not indulgences…
Therefore; because my blessings and deliverances are not indulgences to sin, but greater obligations to all duties to God and men. So that if religion and righteousness were utterly lost in the world, they ought in all reason to be found among you as my peculiar people and freed men.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all…
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments,.... Delivered in this and the preceding chapters, and elsewhere, whether ceremonial or judicial, or moral, as there were of each, which had been delivered to them; and which are all comprehended in these two words, "statutes", or ordinances, which were the determinations of his sovereign will, and of mere positive institution; and "judgments", which were such laws as respected their civil or religious conduct, formed according to the rules of justice and equity: "all" and everyone of which were to be "observed", taken notice of, and regarded, in order to be put in practice, as follows:
and do them; act according to them, in civil, moral, and religious life:
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I am the Lord; who enjoined all these things, and had a right to do so, and expected obedience to them, which it was right fit that they should give.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Therefore - Because my blessings and deliverances are not…
Therefore - Because my blessings and deliverances are not indulgences to sin, but greater obligations to all duties to God and men.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 37. Shall ye observe all my statutes] חקתי…
Verse 37. Shall ye observe all my statutes] חקתי chukkothi, from חק chak, to describe, mark, or trace out; the righteousness which I have described, and the path of duty which I have traced out. Judgments, משפטי mishpatai, from shaphat, to discern, determine, direct, c. that which Divine Wisdom has discerned to be best for man, has determined shall promote his best interest, and has directed him conscientiously to use. See Clarke on Le 26:15.
1. MANY difficulties occur in this very important chapter, but they are such only to us; for there can be no doubt of their having been perfectly well known to the Israelites, to whom the precepts contained in this chapter were given. Considerable pains however have been taken to make them plain, and no serious mind can read them without profit.
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2. The precepts against injustice, fraud, slander, enmity, c., c., are well worth the notice of every Christian and those against superstitious usages are not less so and by these last we learn, that having recourse to astrologers, fortune-tellers, &c., to get intelligence of lost or stolen goods, or to know the future events of our own lives, or those of others, is highly criminal in the sight of God. Those who have recourse to such persons renounce their baptism, and in effect renounce the providence as well as the word of God.
3. The precepts of humanity and mercy relative to the poor, the hireling, and the stranger, are worthy of our most serious regard. Nor are those which concern weights and measures, traffic, and the whole system of commutative justice, less necessary to be observed for the benefit and comfort of the individual, and the safety and prosperity of the state.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 19:37. Therefore — Because my blessings and deliverances…
Lev 19:37. Therefore — Because my blessings and deliverances are not indulgences to sin, but greater obligations to all duties to God and men.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain I am the Lord--This solemn admonition, by which these…
I am the Lord--This solemn admonition, by which these various precepts are repeatedly sanctioned, is equivalent to "I, your Creator--your Deliverer from bondage, and your Sovereign, who have wisdom to establish laws, have power also to punish the violation of them." It was well fitted to impress the minds of the Israelites with a sense of their duty and God's claims to obedience.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Moral precepts are rested on their right foundation the…
Moral precepts are rested on their right foundation the command of God and the religious motive.
Moral commandments have a double sanction.
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They are to be obeyed
(1) because they carry their own sanction with them,
(2) because they are commanded.
In the latter respect all Divine injunctions stand on a level. All transgressions of what is commanded are equally sin, but they are not equal sins. A man who steals is not guilty of an equally heinous sin with the man who commits murder, but he is equally guilty of sin, because both murder and theft are forbidden. All God"s statutes, and all his judgments are to be observed without exception, in order to be righteous according to the righteousness of the Law. "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the Law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them". (Rom_10:5) "This do, and ye shall live". (Luk_11:28)
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